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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
World
Alex Croft

Russian use of chemical weapons in Ukraine ‘widespread and growing’ European intelligence warns

Russia has been accused by European intelligence agencies of “widespread” use of banned chemical weapons in Ukraine.

While it was already accused of using tear gas in its three-year war in Ukraine, German and Dutch intelligence agencies say Moscow has expanded its use of chemical weapons on the battlefield, including the use of potentially-lethal chemical choking agent chloropicrin.

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